Nrfl. How can I count the WAYS I don’t wanna work?
A fine long list of To-Do’s was short-circuited by the unwelcome calendar reminder of the appointment to have the boobs X-rayed at mid-day. Ugh!
This bifurcated (heh! as it were!!!) the 87 gerjillion chores stacked up to be done, since rather little gets done (realistically, even if one drags one’s computer along) while one is cooling one’s heels in a waiting room with a GD television set blathering away.
So far I’ve managed to…
• Send course materials to Copy Center (took all of about 90 seconds)
• Contact disgruntled client (30 seconds)
• Update AMEX charges; find out how much was really charged after the $1795 in insurance premiums was racked up (about 10 minutes; approx $300 over budget)
• Add to that task: figure out WTF!!!?? (veterinarian bills, veterinarian bills, veterinarian bills)
• Contact associate editor; discuss summer’s work strategy while she’s junketing around China
• Get effing mammogram
We could add to those:
• Engage part of strategy described in last post — to relieve stress — by hiring neighbor’s non-English-speaking cleaning lady
• Figure out how to pay N-E-S-CL when there’s no GD cash in the house (exchange check for cash with neighbor)
And to that we can add:
• Respond to prospective client who had been presumed lost
• Negotiate delay in indexing volume of Anglo-Saxon maritime history to accommodate challenges of “teaching” a four-week comp course while sidekick is running around Asia
But we could say that ONE of us has not yet done…
• Read copy
• Read copy
• Read copy
• Respond to ALL “unread/flagged IMPORTANT” e-mail messages
• Pick up house for new N-E-S-CL
• Separate out rags that will scratch furniture from those that will not scratch furniture
• Pay Jesse
• Ask Jesse if he can work any magic to compensate for new STUPID stuff inflicted by latest WordPress “update”
• Mix new bottle of tile/glass cleaner for N-E-S-CL
• Meet associate editor at fave restaurant for (probably monumentally expensive) dinner to celebrate her latest amazing achievement
• Contact BlueHost; cancel everything there and demand money back
All of which leaves us with a question: WHY are there always more things to do than there are hours in the day to do them??????